When Dart examined the contents of the crate, he found a fossilised endocast of a skull, showing the impression of a complex brain, and matched it to a fossilised skull of a juvenile primate, which had a shallow face and fairly small teeth.
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There, too, Dart detailed how Taung s endocast was expanded globally in three different regions, contrary to the suggestion that he believed hominin brains evolved back-end-first, " i . e . ", in a so-called mosaic fashion.
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In 2013, a comparison of the LB1 endocast to a set of 100 normocephalic and 17 microcephalic endocasts by Vannucci, Baron and Holloway showed that there is a wide variation in microcephalic brain shape ratios and that in these ratios the group as such is not clearly distinct from normocephalics.
